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Digital Commonwealth brings together collections from Massachusetts libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives.

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    16 Jun 2020

    A statement from the Digital Commonwealth Board of Directors:

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  2. Oct 7

    Here are a few more for good measure. We didn't realize we had so many factory ruin pictures!

    Photograph titled "Ruins of Weldon's factory, Acushnet"
    Photograph titled "Ruins of the R. B. Grover Co. Shoe Factory Fire, Brockton, March 20, 1905"
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  3. Oct 4

    The Crisis Book Shop catalog ran nine pages long in 1932. Books by W.E.B. Du Bois were included of course, along with those by Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes and ohers. W.E.B. Du Bois Papers, UMASS Amherst

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  4. Oct 2

    This toddler photographed for The Crisis magazine. about 1930 was adorably named, Eugenia Eddie Bradford. The Crisis was the magazine of the NAACP. W.E.B. Du Bois Papers , Special Collections & University Archives, UMASS Amherst.

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  5. Oct 1

    Here's a different perspective for . "Relativity" and "Balcony" by M.C. Escher.

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    Sep 29

    Teaching Black and LGBTQ+ Inclusive Histories with Primary Sources - Kevin Dua and Dr. Jon M. Wargo

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    Sep 27

    Attention ! Our primary source sets can help you include into your classroom. This photo of and is from our set on Puerto Rican Migration to the US, available here:

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  8. Sep 27

    Digital Commonwealth is hiring! We're looking for a part-time Operations Manager to provide administrative and logistical leadership to the Digital Commonwealth and its Board. Please see the complete job description below:

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  9. Sep 27

    An industrious toddler keeps the dominos upright in this advertising card from the Newton Free Library's Auburndale Tradecards Collection.

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  10. Sep 25

    While pumpkin flavored items have been everywhere for weeks, we only officially crossed over into autumn this week. Arthur Griffin photograph from the Griffin Museum of Photography. fhttps://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:sq87bv725

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  11. Sep 20

    These coeds from Cape Cod Community College get an impromptu fishing lesson at the Hyannis Yacht Club in this 1951 image from the Barnstable Patriot Photograph Collection.

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  12. Sep 17

    Registration is still open for next Thursday's panel discussion, Teaching Black and LGBTQ+ Histories with Primary Sources. For more information and to register see:

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  13. Sep 14

    September through November is Cranberry harvesting season. Take opportunity to enjoy the tart berry in many incarnations before it arrives en masse on dinner tables across the nation on Thanksgiving

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  14. Sep 13

    in 1948, voters in ME elected Margaret Chase Smith Senator, making her the 1st woman to serve both Houses of Congress. Interview: American Archive of Public Broadcasting.

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  15. Sep 11

    On the 20th Anniversary of 9-11, let's honor the sacrifices firefighters made that day, have always made and will continue to make for others. Historic New England's Digitized Museum Collections

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  16. Sep 10

    No geese were harmed in the making of this photo* *(we hope)

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  17. Sep 10

    "Behold, I come bearing chicks! Their names are Fred and Clucky"

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  18. Sep 10

    "I may not have a pet, but here's my awesome giant squirrel painting"

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  19. Sep 10

    Here's your Friday afternoon timeline cleanser. school pet show, 1956. The smiling kid trying to hold on to the goose is a champion.

    Photograph of children holding up their pets in a classroom.
    Photograph of children holding up their pets in a classroom.
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  20. Sep 6

    Happy Labor Day from Digital Commonwealth! The Otis Grange recreated the iconic Iwo Jima photograph for their Labor Day float in 1945. Important work indeed. Image from the Lee Library Historical Collection. #

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  21. Sep 5

    May Webster of Holderness NH, Associate of the American Ornithologists' Union, leans out a window and feeds a . People "came from far and near to see the numbers of these birds that haunted her gardens and sipped from the tubes of sweets that she prepared for them."

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